World Health Organization

Forty-eighth session

WPR/RC48.R7

Development of Health Research

The Regional Committee,

Having considered the report of the Regional Director on the development of health research;*

Recalling resolution WPR/RC46.R12 on the development of health research;

ENDORSES the recommendations of the Western Pacific Advisor Committee on Health Research (WPACHR) at its sixteenth session and the Strategic plan for health research in the Western Pacific Region, 1997-2001;

URGES Member States:

(1) to undertake priority health research especially as it relates to the new directions advocated in New horizons in health, and to disseminate results which can immediately be applied for policy-making;

(2) to establish a national focal point to coordinate and manage health research activities, if this does not already exist;

REQUESTS the Regional Director, subject to availability of resources:

(1) to implement the WPACHR recommendations;

(2) to continue to support individual and group research training activities;

(3) to support research proposals in priority areas;

(4) to report back to the Regional Committee at its forty-ninth session through his report on actions taken to strengthen the dissemination of research results in the Western Pacific Region.